Naoise Mac Sweeney: 2 books
Homer’s Iliad and the Trojan War
Dialogues on Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
In this new volume, Jan Haywood and Naoíse Mac Sweeney investigate the position of Homer's Iliad within the wider Trojan War tradition through a series of detailed case studies. From ancient Mesopotamia to twenty-first century America, these examples are drawn from a range of historical and cultural...
Troy
Myth, City, Icon
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
From the palaces of Homeric epic to the ancestral seat of Roman emperors, Troy in antiquity was a place couched in myth. But for nearly four millennia, Troy was also a living city, inhabited by real people. Troy today is therefore a site of major archaeological and historical significance. In the...